New York Night Fall is an oil on canvas measuring 110×150 centimeters that photographs nightfall in the heart of New York. The light, or rather the lights, are the absolute protagonists of the painting: those of the skyscrapers, the boutiques and the car headlights. Together they create luminous walls on which the elements in the dark take on almost anthropomorphic shapes. The contrast with the sky is fascinating, a black hole that seems to swallow everything that is not illuminated. Martin Koester is attracted to artificial lights both from a chromatic and poetic point of view because, for the artist, lights hold the secrets of the people they envelop in their flow.